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NCCIA2010 Workshop notes
Renew and Recharge your Web Design
http://www.terrymorris.net/nccia/
Helpful topics
- Use validators on webdev toolbar
- http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
- http://ie6funeral.com/ - Google dropping support for IE6
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bug
- Semantic mistakes - http://achecker.ca/checker/suggestion.php?id=37
- Good font info - http://webdevfoundations.net/5e/chapter3.html
- good peer review rubric
Wordle... pretty cool.
Wireless Lan
Wireless Lan Standards
- 802.11 - 2Mpbs
- 802.11b - 11Mbps
- 802.11g - 54Mpbs (2.4GHz)
WEP and WPA are weak security
Next steps
- 802.11n - 600Mbps
- renamed 802.11-2007
- Uses MIMO (Multiple Input / Multiple Output)
- spatial multiplexing - sending independant streams in paralel
- Notation 2x3:2 - max # of transmit signals (allows up to 4x4:4)
- Get 802.11n (2.4GHz or 5Ghz or both)
- can use 802.11a/g/n modes... or only n
Game Design - Free tools
Presentation by: Brad Swearington, Wake Tech
- What makes the level fun - follow your instincts
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Player Ergonomics - no learning by death
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Level Flow - keep the player moving
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Rhythm - roller coaster vs highway
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Difficulty - don't make it too bad
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Wow Factor - the water cooler moments (you want people talking about the game)
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Hooks - setting your game apart from others
Unreal
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$99 license for students - 25% for after $5000
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Check out whizzle Unreal game with UDK. You can download and run.
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Good tutorials - http://www.hourences.com/book/tutorialsindex.htm
Good Books
VMs from a Distance
Harry Bulbrook
Requirements:
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RAM - Requires a lot - each VM needs memory (so that SWAP is not used)
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Processor - fast
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Diskspace - need enough for each
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Use USB harddrives rather than Flash drives - much faster
Simulation / Serious Games
Kai Wong
Using Vicious and Unreal Engines
http://cet.waketech.edu/syllabi/syllabi_ct.html#grd
A simulation game that requires you to create a barrel of pills. Uses the Unreal Engine to teach an employee how to use an expensive piece of hardware.
A Flash-based game that enables a user to understand how they must prepare for clean-room work.
The
Innovative Game Program
Farhad
Only have to offer SGD11,112,114 (modeling),212,289 to have a SGD program, idea is to have the courses online through CPCC (through overloads).
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5hr classes - 2 in class/3 online - students are not even required to go to the 2hrs lecture. How?
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Many of the classes do not have books. How?
Imagine Cup competition - http://imaginecup.com/default.aspx
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Where top 6 in world competition.
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This year they sent 6 teams. One is in national competion.
The goal of the class is the competition!
Service learning - use TechConnect (have DME students teach the hs students). To learn, you retain much more (80%) when you teach! Have students teaching the classes!
Ask Ron Williams about college classes at highshools.
XNA is THE app for game development according to Farhard. Microsoft based. http://www.xna.com/. Windows Phone (mobile) 7 also being announced.... based on XNA.
Instruction resources for BB... http://www.cpcc.edu/its/digitalmedia/Self%20Service/version-2-getting-started
HTML5 is the competion for Flash, according to Farhard.